The so-called collective West has entered an existential tailspin that could drag the world into chaos.
The so-called collective West is spiraling into a profound crisis that threatens to plunge the planet into turmoil and a catastrophe beyond imagination, as its only recourse remains war—a legacy of enduring colonialism and its ultimate form: imperialism.
Western strategists proclaim the West as “our civilisation,” a notion built on self-justified ideas of racial supremacy and a supposed mandate to define unique civilisational and human standards—“our values”—alongside a presumed divine right to claim global wealth. When needed, this worldview also relies on religious dominance: the crusading zeal. Conflicts such as the war on Iran and the horrors inflicted in Palestine serve as testament.
Nonetheless, the collective West is beginning to fracture.
Put simply, this divide first surfaced across the Atlantic, sparked by the seismic impact of Trump: a ruler with traits reminiscent of Nero, placing his psychopathic ego above all else, including human lives.
Yet Trump did not arise from a vacuum, nor was he a historical anomaly. He embodies the decline and dysfunction in the monetary engine that powers the collective West and underpins all its claimed superiority. Capitalism is now engulfed in its critical existential breakdown.
Having descended into neoliberal chaos and unable even to pretend it represents democracy, freedom, humanism, or human rights, this system now veers towards a more extreme despair: fascism.
This fascist trend manifests in various forms—from Trump’s blatant recklessness to more polished disguises still cloaked in the diminishing veneer of democracy, represented by figures such as Merz in Germany, Starmer, far-right alliances in Montenegro, Zelensky, Modi, Macron, Meloni, and others.
The collective West’s rift runs deep, not just between the United States and Europe but also inside Europe itself, where the European Union is falling apart amid feelings of abandonment, especially as Trump seems intent on ending the military protection it has counted on for so long.
Meanwhile, the United States and Israel, whose military partnership exemplifies imperial-Zionism, focus on the Middle East to secure strategic and resource advantages while strengthening the Zionist state’s policing function.
With NATO direction unclear and Trump effectively abandoning the EU, Europe must contend with Russia and temporarily uphold Zelensky’s increasingly autocratic rule. At least the EU can find some reassurance in the fact that Russia does not currently pose a real military threat. Yet insisting otherwise could provoke dangerously unpredictable outcomes.
The collective West has splintered, yet in every one of its sectors, war remains the only strategy for survival. This drive propels us toward chaos and potentially disaster.
These events mark capitalism’s dying convulsions, lashing out wildly while wielding fascism as its weapon. Still, the fight must persist until people worldwide awaken and strive to avert the spiral of capitalist anarchy from pushing our planet toward the annihilation of life as we know it.
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